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Th-Flipped Class Activity: The Waste Land

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  This Blog task is given by Dilip Barad Sir as a part of Flipped class activity  Teacher's Blog   In this video : wasteland has been seen recorded by critics as response to war that is first world war.second and first world war played vital role in giving rise to or spread existential angst, the idea of nothingless, idea of meaninglessness fragmented life, brokenness shattered mirror image. Diseases are highly individual with diseases we fight internal battel in war soldiers fight battels. war became recorded in our mind than the diseases becomes very personal battel. like war we can count economoic loss, count body in pandemic as well. Elizabeth Outka says may be because these reasons these are the interpretation that she is making there it's difficult to memorialize a pandemic because diseases makes feel helpless. waste land as a pandemic poem we can find some letters written by T.S. eliot in which he mentions he and his wife were influenza infected in december 19...

Th-WB Yeats - Poems

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This Blog Task is Given By Dilip Barad Sir,  Teacher's Blog Q-1) Compare the treatment of war in On Being Asked for a War Poem with other war poems by Wilfred  Owen or Siegfried Sassoon.  Ans-  W. B. Yeats - "On Being Asked for a War Poem" Yeats' poem rejects the idea of glorifying war and suggests that silence is the best response to the horrors of war. He believes that poets should focus on more traditional subjects rather than engaging in political debates about war. Wilfred Owen Owen's poems, such as "Dulce et Decorum Est" and "Anthem for Doomed Youth," starkly depict the brutal realities of war. He exposes the physical and psychological trauma soldiers endure, often using vivid and disturbing imagery to challenge the romanticized view of war. Owen's work is deeply anti-war, emphasizing the senselessness and suffering caused by conflict. Siegfried Sassoon Sassoon's poems, like "Suicide in the Trenches" and "Does it Ma...